GOP hacks going all in on the fake talking points.

I know a dozen neoliberals within a stones throw of our house, with very comfortable six-figure incomes, who took $20k-50k bogus PPP.

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I don't see how the cost of college for previous generations is relevant. If you knew the terms of the loan, the cost of tuition, and the expected salary range for your major (with a degree from your institution) then there should be no surprise about not being able to payoff your loan. Ten minutes with a spreadsheet could have told you that you were making a bad financial decision. You could instead have gone to a State school or community college, changed your major to something lucrative, or simply gone into the trades.

You should tell the banks, and the millionaires who took out PPP loans that. I hope you are in that thread.


While you are at it, tell Ukraine too. No more money for them. They should have known that Russia would attack. They should have saved for the war. It's been in the making for decades. This was always the expected outcome, as you call it. No surprises here. I hope you agree with this as well.

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I don't see how the cost of college for previous generations is relevant. If you knew the terms of the loan, the cost of tuition, and the expected salary range for your major (with a degree from your institution) then there should be no surprise about not being able to payoff your loan. Ten minutes with a spreadsheet could have told you that you were making a bad financial decision. You could instead have gone to a State school or community college, changed your major to something lucrative, or simply gone into the trades.

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Yes, so INSTEAD of financing insanely expensive “classes,” let’s make sure universities are gutted of admins, students services, fancy facilities. Bare-bones education focused university experience only.
Also, since tax payers are paying now- can we limit which majors are being funded? Why not? Some are absolutely better for the economy than others.

By cutting student services, you would be forcing the university experience to lose its focus on education, as students would have to divert their focus to seek these services elsewhere.

??? That might be the vaguest statement on the board.
Also students could…. Focus on their …. Studies. You don’t need a student services team to help them do their reading. As it is, as every professor knows, the increase of the “university experience” has decreased the quality of work and education. Students are so accustomed to fun times and so coddled now that they can no longer learn how to think. But in any case, if they need a provided service, yes go elsewhere. I can agree to have taxes be diverted from roads to education, but not for smoothies and movie night on the green.

Screw you. I'll never understand why people get so pissed about someone catching a break you didn't receive.
Misery loves company is not a good look. Or sentiment.

You don't understand why people who made responsible financial decisions are unhappy about having their money taken away from them and used to subsidize people who made poor financial decisions?

I haven't been following this thread, but saw a tweet pointing out that while MTG is complaining about student loans, her company was forgiven many multiples of that amount. I also cannot believe that we gave the despicable Catholic church $3.5 BILLION. I will save my outrage for everyone on this tweet:

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Yes, so INSTEAD of financing insanely expensive “classes,” let’s make sure universities are gutted of admins, students services, fancy facilities. Bare-bones education focused university experience only.
Also, since tax payers are paying now- can we limit which majors are being funded? Why not? Some are absolutely better for the economy than others.

By cutting student services, you would be forcing the university experience to lose its focus on education, as students would have to divert their focus to seek these services elsewhere.

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Yes, so INSTEAD of financing insanely expensive “classes,” let’s make sure universities are gutted of admins, students services, fancy facilities. Bare-bones education focused university experience only.
Also, since tax payers are paying now- can we limit which majors are being funded? Why not? Some are absolutely better for the economy than others.

Yay for Biden on keeping his campaign promise.

Note her attempt to mislead with deliberately deceptive wording. She worked a layabout summer job in a pool. So what, nearly all college kids work in the summer, and many in far tougher conditions than poolside. But she words this in a way to infer she bootstrapped her way through Georgetown while juggling classes and working 60+ hours a week during the school year. The truth is Georgetown gave her a boatload of grants and means-based scholarships to cover nearly all of the $200,000 price tag for her ritzy private college. $10K in loans is a pittance. But she's a victim! This is the right wing grifter playbook: exaggerate and mislead to rile up the angry rubes.

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Anonymous wrote:Right wing reporter whining about her measly $10,000 in loans after attending Georgetown for nearly free a decade ago. These people are so ugly. Imagine rage tweeting with low class profanity about $10k from 10 years ago after you went to GU for practically nothing out of pocket. Move on, sweetie.

I don't believe it. I made around $37k in NoVa and landed a federal job with security clearance. The background investigators quizzed my employer and neighbors asking if I was a prostitute or sold drugs since I was so low income living in this area. I also wasn't paying off $10k in 6 months with the rent I owed every month

Ok now I really don’t believe it. She’s claiming she worked 60 hours during the school year at GU? Pathological liar. And she paid off the $10k so quickly after graduating because she saved “thousands” her first summer while allegedly a low class girl living in the most expensive region in the US? Not adding up.

Or she’s telling the truth and you look like an entitled bum who doesn’t understand hard work.

I absolutely know people who did stuff like this. I don’t think everyone has the grit or the physical/mental strength, but you don’t just accuse someone of being a pathological liar. It makes YOU look weak.

It's telling Ms. Athey tweeted proof of her quickly paid off $10k in student loans from 10 years ago. But she has not posted any proof of her claimed 60+ hour work weeks while a student at Georgetown 6 to 10 years ago. A bonafide journalist can't provide a pay stub from 2012-2016 proving those time and a half paychecks? And now she's posting misdirection tweets about her dad being a plumber, which of course has nothing to do with her claim that she worked "60+ hours" a week while enrolled full-time at GU. And she fails to acknowledge her privilege in collecting upwards of $200k in grants and means-based scholarships. Ms. Athey received upwards of $200k in college help and she's raging about less fortunate peers getting $10k.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m SO DISGUSTED with the loan forgiveness. There just aren’t words. The government needs to stop incentivizing colleges to charge exorbitant amounts.

I really hustled and worked like mad to pay off my loans. Policies that punish responsible people are shameful.

So many self—proclaimed “hustlers” on this thread.

What do you call it when someone works 2 jobs, budgets, and cuts out on fun to pay off their debt? We can go with responsibility if you prefer.

Maybe the point is you SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DO THAT to get an education. You did it? Goody for you? So did I: undergrad + law school. I don't want that for other people because it sucked.

Life's not fair. Repeat to yourself as needed. Then use that outrage for something productive.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m SO DISGUSTED with the loan forgiveness. There just aren’t words. The government needs to stop incentivizing colleges to charge exorbitant amounts.

I really hustled and worked like mad to pay off my loans. Policies that punish responsible people are shameful.

ITA. And, this will not play well for Biden or the Dems.

If he thinks this is such a great move, why doesn't he have Congress pass this into law? Because... he knows it would NEVER pass. Many Democrats are criticizing this move. The votes are not there and Biden knows that. Good luck to the Dems in swing districts. This will cause voters to swing toward the Republicans. Good.

Screw you. I'll never understand why people get so pissed about someone catching a break you didn't receive.
Misery loves company is not a good look. Or sentiment.